Category - History
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and want...
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When Trains Ruled the Kootenays: A Short History of Railways in Southeastern British Columbia
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /When Trains Ruled the Kootenays is the story of how the railways established an extensive and convenient transportation network to haul ore from th...
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world "Excellent . . . calls to ...
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The Complete Book of Police and Military Motorcycles
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This is a reprint of The Complete Book of Police and Military Motorcycles originally published in 2001. From Pittsburgh's adoption of motorcycles f...
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The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America's past. Spiritually, their j...
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Operation Black Buck 1982: The Vulcans' Extraordinary Falklands War Raids
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /'The definitive account of the Vulcan raids... taught me something new on every page'- Rowland White, author of the bestselling Vulcan 607A newly r...
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Mig-21 "Fishbed": Opposing Rolling Thunder 1966-68
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, István Toperczer reve...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who fina...
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A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick F...
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The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /From the stunning victory at Pearl Harbor to its dramatic reversal at Midway, the Imperial Japanese Navy swept all before it in its numerous victor...
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The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into ...
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TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from JFK airport on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 passengers on board. Although ini...
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lus...
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Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nation In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen R. Bo...
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A6m2/3 Zero-Sen: New Guinea and the Solomons 1942
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens....
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspire...
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The Wright Brothers
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize--the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courag...
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lus...
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Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is naval history's most powerful and versatile warship. It is the reason the U.S. Navy is the predominant forc...
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Seaforth World Naval Review 2024
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships in th...
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The Windfall Battleships: Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan and Latin-American Arms Races
HardcoverOriginal price $57.00Original price $57.00 - Original price $57.00Original price $57.00Current price $48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /This new book explores for the first time the full story of how two Turkish and two Chilean battleships became British capital ships after the outb...
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RMS Queen Mary: The World's Favourite Liner
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Probably the most famous, and certainly one of the best-loved ships in the world, the Cunard transatlantic liner RMS Queen Mary has now been preser...
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Nautilus to Columbia: 70 Years of the Us Navy's Nuclear Submarines
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /A highly illustrated history of the US Navy's nuclear submarine program, from the postwar years to the 2020 Columbia-class SSBNs. James C. Goodall...
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50 Years of Duxford Air Shows
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Since the first show in 1973, IWM Duxford's air shows have established a reputation as the world's finest celebration of aviation history and cultu...
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